Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The cinematic style of a director is his or her fingerprint. It is wholly unique to that specific director, and even the best attempts to mimic another director’s style are not entirely successful. The esteemed director Tim Burton uses his own unique style to enrich his films with meaning and complexity. However, his use of styles is not equal and balanced, for he draws heavily upon grayscale and dark imagery. He uses these colors as a polarizing agent to enhance the movement of the plot without…

Wells claimed that is only preparation for directing Citizen Kane was to watch John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) forty times. Ford’s influence on the film is pronounced, but according to David Cook’s History of Narrative Film, it is equally clear that Welles was steeped in the major European traditions, especially those of German Expressionism and the Kammerspielfilm and French poetic realism. Kane’s narrative economy owes much to “the example of Ford, its visual texture is heavily indebted to the…

"The most important parts of a film are the mysterious parts - beyond the reach of reason and language" - Stanley Kubrick Kubricks distinguished movie making was made out of experimentation. Everything is centered around re-invention. It's hard to talk about Kubricks work without overly analysing it, but that should be done because he is one of the most celebrated directors of our time. His film making techniques are striking, but the most important things within his films are exploring the…

the entertainment industry. There are many defining characteristics that describe horror and there are people who may have a question on whether a movie is truly considered a horror. Alfred Hitchcock is a director who captivates, and confuses the audience with his movies. One of the more confusing stories in the Hitchcock universe is “The Birds”. This is because the monster does not appear for the first twenty to thirty minutes of the movie, and there appears to be no underlying reason behind…

Hitchcock captures a montage at a medium shot of Devlin and Alicia deliberating how they will go through more searching of both her husband and his connections. Specifically, Alicia responded that she did not receive the key to the basement filled with wine. Devlin makes a suggestion to Alicia that she should encourage Sebastian to host a party as well as announce his new wife, in which he does. After Devlin gives Alicia this request, she leaves to complete this request, and a wide shot is being…

This is a story about a door-to door jewelry salesman, Lars Thorwald and his extremely ill wife and a single man who is a traveling photographer, L. B. Jefferies, who spies on his neighbors due to his boredom while he is stuck in his apartment due to an accident which caused him to break his leg and now he is immobilized for a couple of months. While peering at several of his neighbors, he has memorized each of their daily routines and one particular couple peaks his interest. Although Jefferies…

Joseph Sargent’s 1974 crime/drama/thriller film, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, centers on a heist of a New York subway cart and the race against time to catch the culprits and save the hostages. The dramatic aspect is embedded within the development of the colorful, diverse characters and their dissimilar reactions towards the crime situation. These character’s different personalities as well as their different agendas almost hinder the narrative of the film, but diegetic elements stop…

of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris and Michael S. Lasky, Hitchcock stated that “Psycho is a humorous film, the darkest of black comedies to be sure, yet humorous nonetheless”(217). Hitchcock enjoyed making these types of film, and especially this one in particular. Alfred Hitchcock is a man that like to play with the audiences emotions. “The violence in the scene is what keeps people interested, and just the suspense of anticipating it is enough to keep our adrenaline flowing”, Hitchcock…

6) Psycho http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I never thought black and white could be so gooooooood. I love this movie because it has so much meaning behind it. The beginning is one of the most powerful sense of its time. A women being undress on screen was a big no no. Then a trusted secretary women stealing 40 thousand dollars then running with it out of town. The director wanted to show that women at the time could do what men could do. That they weren't any different. I…

Released in 1935, The 39 Steps is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous masterpieces. Quickly becoming an international success, it established Hitchcock’s unshaken status as the cinematic ‘master of suspense’. This classic film is particularly notable today for combining suspense and humor, and many of Hitchcock’s other trademarks as it inspired many remakes and adaptations. The thriller starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll and Peggy Ashcroft is loosely based on the 1915 novel of the same…